Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata, who tripled revenue by introducing hits like the Wii console, is coming under fire from some investors and analysts after the company’s latest game machine flopped.
“Iwata misunderstood the market,” said Yasuaki Kogure, chief investment officer at Tokyo-based SBI Asset Management Co., which holds Nintendo shares. “His direction is not what it should be.”
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
Nintendo is doing fine. It was the most successful out of the big 3 in 2013
"Nintendo is doing fine"
I'm sure the share holders disagree with you.
i mean the Wii was a cultural phenomenon and i give the guy props for taking that risk. Yes Nintendo wasent the first with the idea of motion controls but they put their neck on the line and wow did it pay off. As for the troubles now i can understand from the focal point of business and the strategy that was put forward is not catching up to the promises and hopes that they give out and investors and gamers are upset. You make all that money with Wii and 3ds but this mistake is basically taking all of that away, its as if the wii and 3ds phenomenon is a loan for what is the WiiU.
I say test the waters, if mario kart or smash dont give you the numbers you want sales wise, then thats the nail in the coffin and just move on. Mario 3D world did good but not to what it can and i believe that's a first sign of worse to come. So test waters on your other top system sellers especially mario kart and smash bro, whenever that is coming out, but if the present proves anything, it a good indication if mario aint selling then this pipe is clogged just move on.
Nintendo making amazing games has never been a problem.
What Nintendo needs to figure out is how to make a console that "Western" consumers and developers want.
If Nintendo made a system, other than the Wii U, that was comparative to the power and online capabilities of the PS4 and Xbox1, we would not be having this conversation now.
Sony released the PS4 in the U.S. first for a reason...It is catered to western audience tastes.
Nintendo needs someone like Sony's Mark Cerny that understands what consumers and developers want.
The tide has turned. Nintendo needs to cater to us western gamers instead of japanese gamers, as far as consoles go, and keep making the games they always have and things will be fine.
Gamecube was an overall commercial failure. Wii struck gold with the casual and non-gamers which turned it into a fad. Without that fad, the WiiU is doomed to repeat, if not perform worse, than the Gamecube, seeing as how Gamecube at least had decent 3rd party support. Wii U barely has any at all.
Hell even if the Wii U had the same hardware as ps4/xb1, Nintendo has still largely ignored Online. So even then, it'd still be at a disadvantage. Factor in that it's basically a ps3/360 in terms of hardware and you're left with the recipe of failure.